Quality News: Hacker News Rankings

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Youth and what happens when it's gone (tolstoyan.substack.com)

×3.80 75 #81 | 280 points by mattgreenrocks 6 hours ago | 194 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Tianjin robot incident raises alarm over public safety and robotics (businesskorea.co.kr)

×2.40 88 | 72 points by hkmaxpro 1 hour ago | 49 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Dow tumbles 800 points as Trump confirms tariffs on Mexico/Canada start Tuesday (cnn.com)

×11.88 82 | 33 points by voisin 1 hour ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Calls for boycotting US products spread in northern Europe (lemonde.fr)

×9.72 78 | 23 points by doener 1 hour ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Ask HN: How much employee resume verification is done in practice?

×2.07 41 | 33 points by NewUser76312 4 hours ago | 52 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Atlanta Fed predicts -2.8% GDP (atlantafed.org)

×9.20 56 #58 | 183 points by awnird 1 hour ago | 178 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Proof that LLM just mimic logical without understanding underlying logic (arxiv.org)

×2.65 66 | 14 points by spaintech 1 hour ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
A crypto mogul who bought Trump coins is getting a reprieve on fraud charges (cnn.com)

×6.39 46 | 12 points by TheAlchemist 2 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Tesla owners get creative to distance themselves from Elon Musk (electrek.co)

×6.91 68 | 12 points by zfg 1 hour ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Solarpunk (wikipedia.org)

×3.01 25 | 407 points by nis0s 22 hours ago | 247 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Treasury ends enforcement of business ownership database (nbcnews.com)

×4.03 49 | 9 points by dralley 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Nvidia shares fall 9% or $265B off on tariff fears (cnbc.com)

×7.93 73 | 11 points by speckx 44 minutes ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Ronald Read – Philanthropist, investor, janitor, and gas station attendant (wikipedia.org)

×1.65 36 | 10 points by thecosas 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Bocoup Is Now Worker-Owned (bocoup.com)

×2.77 26 #56 | 51 points by jugglinmike 4 hours ago | 38 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Ex-SAP CTO walks away with €7.1M payout after scandal (theregister.com)

×3.31 24 #38 | 98 points by rntn 4 hours ago | 50 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Executive wealth as a factor in return-to-office (twitter.com/EthanEvansVP)

×6.88 18 | 579 points by kappi 1 day ago | 466 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Transgender troops will be removed from the military (nbcnews.com)

×5.02 54 | 8 points by fulladder 55 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Call centres using AI to 'whiten' Indian accents (telegraph.co.uk)

×3.84 31 | 8 points by hkmaxpro 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
The Elon Musk Cheating Scandal [video] (youtube.com)

×5.26 28 | 9 points by wizardoffoss 2 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Blender-made movie Flow takes Oscar (reuters.com)

×6.33 16 #54 | 735 points by boguscoder 21 hours ago | 136 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
James Harrison, whose blood donations saved >2M babies, has died (npr.org)

×5.99 22 #26 | 152 points by anigbrowl 3 hours ago | 50 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Treasury ends enforcement of database meant to stop shell company formation (go.com)

×3.49 32 | 6 points by srameshc 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
You can't build a cloud on a cloud (railway.com)

×3.99 48 | 6 points by justjake 43 minutes ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
How the U.K. Broke Its Own Economy (theatlantic.com)

×3.90 19 #50 | 38 points by speckx 3 hours ago | 39 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Technology specialists who worked across the federal government are fired (nytimes.com)

×2.41 27 | 6 points by asnyder 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
PFAS in fertilisers blamed for killing livestock in Texas and wreaking havoc (chemistryworld.com)

×3.51 18 #33 | 50 points by chiffre01 3 hours ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Find a Team for your startup/join as a Cofounder – Feedback Welcome:) (stupconnect.com)

×3.31 19 | 7 points by GZPardo 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
A New AI Worry: Many Young Coders No Longer Know How Their Code Works (inc.com)

×3.88 16 #45 | 26 points by namanyayg 2 hours ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
MIT IAP open education courses on diffusion and data-centric AI (mitsoul.org)

×2.94 23 | 5 points by ashayathalye 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
China came to dominate the world in renewable energy (washingtonpost.com)

×5.51 53 #72 | 8 points by boshomi 19 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Made a scroll bar buddy that walks down the page when you scroll (focusfurnace.com)

×2.96 8 #49 | 582 points by hello12343214 20 hours ago | 185 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Enabling Touch ID for sudo on macOS, before and after Sonoma (2023) (adriankwiatkowski.eu)

×2.34 24 | 4 points by fanf2 49 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Options traders are bracing for a stock-market crash (marketwatch.com)

×2.85 11 #62 | 16 points by hjjkjhkj 2 hours ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
TSMC announces $100B investment in US chipmaking (theverge.com)

×2.30 17 | 4 points by fosterfriends 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Amazon’s delivery drones are grounded in College Station, Texas (wired.com)

×2.14 7 #61 | 107 points by impish9208 9 hours ago | 275 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
The Origins of the "++" and "--" Operators

×1.71 6 | 36 points by wpollock 23 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Opera becomes the first major browser with AI-based agentic browsing (opera.com)

×2.31 10 | 4 points by dizzydes 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Oil crisis two point oh (pluralistic.net)

×2.08 21 | 3 points by daralthus 28 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Nomadic infrastructure design for AI workloads (tigrisdata.com)

×1.06 9 #42 | 12 points by xena 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
NASA shows shock waves as Boom's supersonic demonstrator breaks sound barrier (boomsupersonic.com)

×1.72 12 | 3 points by amichail 53 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Zelensky leaves White House after angry meeting (bbc.com)

×19.16 3 | 2891 points by yakkomajuri 3 days ago | 4989 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Opera's AI Browser Operator (opera.com)

×1.78 12 #87 | 3 points by xnx 35 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Ask HN: Have any of you switched away from Dropbox?

×1.63 5 | 6 points by barbequeer 2 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???